Archives
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Getting started at Microsoft
So, I'm super excited to be on-boarded and efforting the realization of end-user recommends and asks! (Translation: I’ve been a Microsoft employee for three weeks now!)
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My Boot-to-VHD experiment: found some tips, like it, but still haven’t found VM nirvana
I’ve recently been running some early releases developer tools which came with the “install on VM’s if you don’t want your computer to catch fire” warning. That seemed like a good time to back off on my “VM’s are for sissies” stance and get my VHD on. After verifying that there wasn’t already a suitable VHD available for download, I decided to follow Scott Hanselman’s directions to set up a Boot To VHD instance.
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Did you know about protocol-relative hyperlinks?
If you use IE8, you’ve probably puzzled over this dialog dozens of times:
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Adding users to a TFS project when you’re not on the domain
Visual Studio Team System was obviously designed for user groups who are all members of a Windows Active Directory domain, all working in the same local network. I’m able to work remotely (without VPN, even) as long as I’m just checking files in and out, but the Visual Studio / TFS UI won’t let me grant users permission to contribute to my projects. I messed around with TFS Power Tools, but that didn’t work either.
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The Designer/Developer Workflow Crisis (That Everyone’s Ignoring)
Let’s take an honest look at what passes for developer/designer workflow these days:
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Windows 7 RTM – Faster Download, Better Upgrade
Here are some quick tips now that Windows 7 is up on MSDN:
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Troubleshooting an Intermittent .NET High CPU problem
We’d been getting sporadic reports of high CPU usage in Witty (a WPF Twitter client). I’d tried running the application in debug mode for a while and could never get it to occur, but finally I saw it happening while I was running a release build (keep in mind that 53% is indicating that one of my two CPU cores was saturated):
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Windows 7 Betta
I’ve been running Windows 7 Beta 1 for a week now and really like it. But I’d been looking at desktop for a few days before someone pointed out the little “desktop Easter egg”.
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Time released content in ASP.NET
While working on the PDC2008 website, we had several time-critical updates. There were some announcements that needed to go live on the website at specific times to coincide with other marketing, there were updates to the list of of software being given to attendees that needed to go live right after the keynotes in which they were announced, etc. While some of the site ran on RSS feeds, on some pages we needed the flexibility of static HTML and CSS. While there were plenty of times where I made that sort of deployment by hitting upload in Filezilla at just the right time, there were other times where that wasn’t possible.